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Posted on 09/14/2019 4:19:16 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
SEATTLE — The solution is cheap and simple: As cities see their homeless populations grow, many are buying one-way bus tickets to send people to a more promising destination, where family or friends can help get them back on their feet.
San Francisco’s “Homeward Bound” program, started more than a decade ago when Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was the city’s mayor, transports hundreds of people a year. Smaller cities around the country — Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Medford, Ore., among them — have recently committed funding to the idea.
Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter And in Seattle this past week, a member of the King County Council proposed a major investment into the region’s busing efforts, fearing that the city was on the receiving end of homeless busing programs from too many other cities.
But do these transport programs actually help people find stable housing? For many of those offered a bus ticket, they do not.
In San Francisco, city officials checking on people in the month after busing them out of town found that while many had found a place to live, others were unreachable, missing, in jail or had already returned to homelessness. Within a year, the city found that one out of every eight bus ticket recipients had returned and sought services in San Francisco once again.
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maybe for Seattle
but do we know what happened to the others?
Did they stay out on the streets but in another city?
Likely
Where are the taxes going to help the cities help their residents?
Maybe the "2 physicians, no strings attached" thing is the way they do it in Belgium, but --- USA?
Can you explain?
after Seattle literally and figuratively invited these people to hole up on the Seattle streets, how ironic that their solution is to ship them to normal towns....
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“” “” Seven out of eight of them do not return to San Fransicko and the program is a failure?”” “”
My thought exactly. I’d say it is a fantastic result especially by standard of any government-run program. And cost-effective considering a homeless do more damage a day than a ticket cost.
Although it is not all that easy. That about towns and cities on the receiving end? It is obvious that 90% of that people won’t socialize.
If I were that cities I’d send retaliate by sending SF a homeless, a released felon, an illegal alien, an Islamist and a rabid racoon per every homeless they send to me.
“” “” As much as I hate seeing bums ruin the public square all over the country and watching the make cities completely unlivable, “Euthansia” is rather harsh.”” “”
Vagrancy is not legal naturally. Increase terms and build special low security prisons for them to deprive them of drugs and alcohol and provide mental aid if needed. And make them to simple jobs to pay for it.
You wrote “build special low security prisons for them to deprive them of drugs and alcohol and provide mental aid if needed.”
We used to have thousands of these facilities. They were called “Mental Institutions” and “Asylums” where these crazies were housed. The libs in the 60s “deinstitutionalized” the crazies who had been involuntarily committed because it was going to be much more humane to have them become functioning members of society. Like almost every lib project, it was a miserable failure.
The real solution is to rebuild and reopen all the asylums and mental institutions and get the crazies and druggies into them. Of course, the drug problem in the 60s was probably 1/10 as bad as it is today.
So some of the western states are dumping even more of their drug addicted criminals on other states. Reminds one of Fidel Castro doing to same.
These geniuses would never consider all the other cities would come up with the same idea and give them bus tickets to SF, Seattle, etc..... Duh!
That’s it. In current form it reminds an act of war. The trash belongs to a dumpster and for that reason it makes sense to send them all to SF instead. My solution is at post #26.
That would be outside of legal framework because asylums were effectively outlawed. My solution is within legal framework.
If we are dismantling the constitution over amendment 2, why can’t we out of sheer kindness take care of those who cannot function, who have no ability to give consent, without their consent??
The law is a human construct. Involuntary commitment used to be legal. Just make it legal again. Or, make it easier to obtain the orders. If humans changed the legal framework once, we can certainly change it back to what is proven to work.
The supposedly “inhumane” treatment in asylums was nowhere near as bad as the treatment the crazies get on the street.
The crazies are expected to fend for themselves the rest of the time. The climate is mild. Shelter can be constructed. Best of all, there is no access to drugs or booze and a few of them even get clean and apply for readmission to normal society.
The rest live the same brutish short live they would have in the streets. We may not have an abundance of tropical islands, but we do have large stretches of deserts, tents and the ability to pipe in potable water.
Liberals are the cockroaches of the human race their plans prove it.
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